A review by alyssa2012
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

5.0

I loved how the author took us on her research journey and showed us why she was so determined to write this book about a woman that she adored. This story highlights many of the problems that women faced in the early 1900's and today. It shows that as a society we have not advanced as much as we should have in terms of gender and racial equality. Mallory showed us how hard and tiring researching a subject with little to no guide can be. We saw how women were pushed out of jobs because men felt intimidated by them. How the work of women were being credited to others. This book is exactly what we needed in 2019 to show just how important the #metoo movement and others like it are.